Essential Skills for Community Health Workers Course
This course develops vital skills for community health workers to combat hypertension and type 2 diabetes. It covers service navigation, tackling social determinants, and creating impactful outreach and education strategies that deliver measurable health improvements in disadvantaged communities.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips community health workers with practical skills in preventing and managing hypertension and type 2 diabetes. It enhances outreach, education, and navigation capabilities. Participants learn to craft clear messages, adapt materials for low-literacy audiences, facilitate screenings and referrals, monitor basic indicators, and refine programmes using community data and partnerships for sustainable results.
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Develop skills
- Chronic disease screening: implement rapid, precise blood pressure and A1c protocols on-site.
- Culturally sensitive outreach: foster trust and increase uptake of preventive health visits.
- Health messaging: develop straightforward, low-literacy scripts on blood pressure and diabetes.
- Service navigation: link clients to clinics, insurance, transport, and social services.
- Programme monitoring: record contacts, referrals, and results using straightforward CHW tools.
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